mgkimsal

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by mgkimsal 4y ago
I got a 94. :/
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
likely a case of wanting "one design to fit all devices".
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
I've had pushback on items like this sometimes with the standard "YAGNI" excuse. A few months ago I came across some blog post describing the reverse: "YAGRI" - You Ain't Gonna Regret It. Just... store the ex
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
This isn't quite the same, but "I thought he was going to do good things. He's not hurting the people he needs to be hurting" is a quote from this Vox article https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
I don't uber/lyft, and I don't have cleaning staff. I do keep the lawn company coming, without too much respect to the amount of savings I have. There was a time when I didn't, but... if keeping these extra services am
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
I had seen someplace else that there's... $107b as of last quarter, but it was down 17% from year before same quarter, so yeah, it's draining some. But are they really putting $70b down in cash for Activision?
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
I added an edit to round down. Again, I used $250k as a loaded cost - benefits, stock options, IRA matching, etc. Someone on $125k year might still 'cost' an extra $40k, and ... the $250k was possibly on the high side - round do
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
11,000 people - let's say an average loaded cost of $250k/yr. That's... ~$3b/yr these folks cost MSFT. Granted, it's per year, but ... keeping these people on for another 3 years would cost ~$10b. MSFT currently h
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
Now add in part time workers, contractors, and contracted-out workers like cleaning staff that are still required, just not counted as FTE. Would be interested to know those numbers too, and... are any of them being affected as well (assum
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
you want to have... just music? If this gets lost, you don't have to worry about identity theft, bank/financial compromise, etc. Yes, security on modern smartphones is... pretty strong, but it's also a target.
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
Bad analogy. Whether I 'own' the company (equity/etc), if I'm a full time employee, the maintenance/debt needs of the company still affect me. They possibly affect me more than someone who merely has 'equity&
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
Can't remember if I read it here recently, or on reddit, but this conference session with David Crane on Pitfall/Atari is pretty good. He doesn't as technical as some folks may want, but there's some coolness in just
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
> Homeschooling children will interact with people in the context of their parents in all places in society their parents visit How is that different from other children?
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
If there’s no IRL activities to bully about, the bullies’ attention is likely drawn to other things more quickly.
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
> It seems largely an accounting trick to get time off the books, Maybe we can pull some accounting tricks to get 'health care' off employer books in the near future?
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
> as long as you don't rely on external dependencies too much. This happens in any ecosystem btw. I can't think of many 'modern' projects in the web world that do not rely heavily on an often very large number of ex
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
Whenever I opt for 'roadtrip', almost inevitably, about 4-5 hours in, I wish I were flying. When I fly, I don't usually say "oh, I wish I'd driven" (unless there's a delay or problem). As I've driv
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
Demo site seems to be down - https://demo.plone.org - wanted to have a looksee but will have to check it out later.
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
Cloudways is a provider that does 'managed' on top of various cloud providers, and "Regular Security Patching" is one of their checklist items. There are no doubt others. Good luck to you.
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
Why is this not a common use case? Linode, DigitalOcean, Vultr, EC2/Lightsail and many many other companies lease dedicated servers and VPS. Lease an app server, lease a DB server, move the data and port the code. Yes, no doubt ther
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
Sure, but that's a different story. You might piss them off and lose customers. You may also be knowingly increasing your support costs. For the average company trying to navigate these sorts of decisions, supporting users with ema
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
it implies support, and may place more burden on testing. if you test with XYZ only, but also allow ABC... then ABC stops working... you'll have pissed off customers.
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
Initial experiences with Rackspace in late 1999 and early 2000. I was amazed that every time I called 'support' I got a real live person. I called at 3am once on a Saturday, got a live person answering, and was connected with a
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
> several other developers are making progress on porting this API You didn't mention tests. How do you know their 'progress' is actually correct or even good? I'm presuming the 'several other developers'
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
At some point you don't get carded, because people can tell based on appearance. Not always, of course, and if they can't be sure, they'll card to be on the safe side, but... there are real world limits of how much carding p
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
> So, most WP sites end up looking like an accreting disk of plugins. I've seen sites with nearly a hundred plugins installed. I took over a site - woocommerce install - with ... 68 plugins. When I've mentioned that over the y
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
maybe they could start to move to more 'contract/project' folks, vs 'employees'. rotating short term contractors would be similar amount of 'churn' but might be seen as more strategic/focused investm
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
Can I assume the '85' in your username indicates a birth year? Zope was a Python project from the late 90s, and had quite a bit of attention and traction in the early cms/publishing days. That brought Python attention, and c
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
Quick steps: * Create new table on disk. * Create temp table in RAM. * Start chunked import. * Import 50k rows in to temp table. * Dump temp table to new table. * Clear temp table. * Import next 50k rows. * Repeat. * Drop old table, rename
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
I hear ya. If you feel you've lost your perspicacity, fear not; it's always in the last place you look. But... yeah. A colleague (25+ years) has to deal with this more than I do, but have hit it some over the years, and it happe

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